Pilot dismissed for drug abuse<\/p>\n
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
After being arrested for taking drugs early on Thursday, Johan,
\n29, a pilot of PT Mandala Airlines (not Garuda Indonesia as
\nreported earlier), was fired on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mandala spokesman Alex Widjojo said that the company had
\ndecided to fire Johan immediately after police arrested him.<\/p>\n
\"Actually, we have grounded him since last week for
\nmisconduct. After police arrested him, we fired him immediately,\"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
Alex said Mandala would conduct urine tests for all of its
\npilots and employees to determine whether other employees were
\nalso taking drugs.<\/p>\n
Johan and his two friends, identified as Ella Magdalena and
\nHadi Kadar, were arrested early on Thursday in a house in Berlan
\ncomplex in Matraman, East Jakarta, for taking shabu-shabu
\n(crystal methamphetamine).<\/p>\n
Police also confiscated around 20 grams of shabu-shabu and
\ndrug paraphernalia inside the house.<\/p>\n
Police said that preliminary evidence showed that Johan was
\njust a drug user, while Ella and her husband Hadi Kadar owned the
\ndrug.<\/p>\n
East Jakarta deputy police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Hilman said
\nthat Ella had told police that she got the drug from someone in
\nKampung Ambon in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"We are now trying to locate the people who supply Ella with
\nthe drug. We believe that she is a member of a drug syndicate,\"
\nhe told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Hilman said that the three suspects were still being
\nintensively interrogated at the East Jakarta Police station.<\/p>\n
He said that they would all be charged under Articles 81 and
\n82 of Law No. 22\/1997 on psychotropic substances that carries a
\nmaximum punishment of 15 years imprisonment.<\/p>",
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